Nationality British Movies Pulp Period 2004– Books Battalion | Name Adam Hamdy Role Writer | |
Born 12 March 1974 (age 50)
London, United Kingdom ( 1974-03-12 ) Occupation Film producer, director, screenwriter, author Notable works Pulp, The Hunter, Starmaker Leviathan Education University of Oxford, University of London, Lincoln College, Oxford Similar People Veronique Sevegrand, Laurence Saunders, Bhasker Patel, Lucy Cudden, Amelia Tyler | ||
Organizations founded Dare Comics | ||
ThrillerFest interview with author/screenwriter Adam Hamdy
Adam Hamdy (born 12 March 1974) is a British writer and film producer best known for his debut comic book limited series The Hunter and his comedy feature film Pulp, which became the first film to ever premiere on the Xbox Video platform.
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Biography
Hamdy was born and raised in London, United Kingdom. He attended the University of Oxford, and graduated with a degree in law. He also holds a degree in philosophy from the University of London. After a number of low-level jobs in the media industry, Hamdy joined the consulting team at Lloyd's of London. From there, he went on to join a niche management consulting firm.
Using seed finance provided by the partners in his consulting firm, Hamdy founded a company that developed specialist online payment systems. He raised £7.5m in venture capital to launch the business. The business was later sold to one of the venture capital investors. Between 2000 and 2001, Hamdy co-wrote a weekly diary column for The Guardian on the ups and downs of being an Internet entrepreneur.
Hamdy left the corporate world to focus on building a career as a writer. One of his first writing jobs was doing additional story work on 50 Cent: Blood On the Sand. He went on to write comics, and created The Hunter, which launched in December 2007. He also created Starmaker: Leviathan, another comic series that was published online and in print in 2009. In late 2009 it was announced that Hunter had been optioned for a film by Scarlet Fire Entertainment, with Hamdy providing the script.
Hamdy has since been working as a screenwriter, and has written for film producers on both sides of the Atlantic. He recently completed the screen adaptation of number9dream by David Mitchell.
Hamdy's debut novel Battalion was published on Kindle on 27 September 2012. Richard Caldwell of review site, The Lottery Party, describes Battalion as "a blistering political techno-thriller". His second novel, Out of Reach, was published by Endeavour Press in May 2015.
Hamdy's next novel, Pendulum, has been acquired by Headline and will be published internationally in November 2016.
Hamdy produced the feature film, Pulp, which became the first film to ever premiere on the Xbox Video platform.
In November 2016 Hamdy published Pendulum - the 1st book in a trilogy. In January 2017 it featured on BBC Radio 2's Book Club.